The Harveian Oration, Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, June 26th, 1879J. & A. Churchill, 1879 - 55 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
absurd a fiction analyse a ray analysis anatomist anatomy animals apologise for attempting Aristotelians or Platonists Aristotle ask ourselves attributes of nature Bacon beauty when clothed believe so absurd born Aristotelians College collocation of facts contemplation declare disease disgraced any department dissect a flower dissected body doctrines endeavouring experiments frame fruitful functions HARVEIAN ORATION human body human mind imagination inquiry integument intellect investigation laboratory language of Goëthe laws he attaches learned lessens the appreciation look man's idiosyncracy material world mechanism of God's medicine natural laws nerve nervous system object observation organs phenomena physi physiologist piety can regard Plato poet practising professor of anatomy pure mental philosopher pursuit quote sufficient examples raise their imagina ray of light regard Harvey say Science represents scientific spirit secrets of nature seems sentiments sight is past steam engine things tical tion true method true scientific instinct truth vertebræ vivisection Wendell Holmes
Pasajes populares
Página 35 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 22 - Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale of creation, leaves death behind it or under it. The metal at its height of being seems a mute prophecy of the coming vegetation, into a mimic semblance of which it crystallizes.
Página 23 - Thus all lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better.
Página 23 - ... by which it is differenced in kind from the flower-shaped Psyche, that flutters with free wing above it. And wonderfully in the insect realm doth the irritability, the proper seat of instinct, while yet the nascent sensibility is...
Página 21 - ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Página 26 - Finally, reflecting on every part of medicine, physiology, pathology, semeiotics, therapeutics, when I see how many questions can be answered, how many doubts resolved, how much obscurity illustrated, by the truth we have declared, the light we have made to shine, I see a field of such vast extent in which I might proceed so far, and expatiate so widely, that this my tractate would not only swell out into a volume, which was beyond my purpose, but my whole life, perchance, would not suffice for its...
Página 21 - Samuel Wilks, in reference to my observation that the usual position of the mandibular tubercle and recess corresponds with that of the dimple in the baby's cheek, drew my attention to the following passage in his Harveian Oration, 1879 : " From any point of view we take, and upon whatever subject we fix our gaze, we come to the conclusion that the greatest discovery ever made by man about himself, and of the earth of which he forms a part, is the doctrine of evolution. " ' The softest dimple in...
Página 24 - It were disgraceful, with this most spacious and admirable realm of nature before us, and where the reward ever exceeds the promise, did we take the reports of others upon trust, and go on coining crude problems out of these, and on them hanging knotty and captious and petty disputations. Nature is herself to be addressed; the paths she shows us are to be boldly trodden...
Página 50 - At last the rootlets of the trees Shall find the prison where she lies, And bear the buried dust they seize In leaves and blossoms to the skies. So may the soul that warmed it rise...
Página 47 - ... looking out, but as one who is looking far beyond and away from things visible, into a world of truth and law which can only be intellectually discerned.